A Midsummer Night's Dream
"Designed to supplement, not supplant, the original, this adaptation illuminates Shakespeare's meaning for modern audiences while maintaining the play's storytelling architecture, emotional texture, and freewheeling humor"--
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
"Designed to supplement, not supplant, the original, this adaptation illuminates Shakespeare's meaning for modern audiences while maintaining the play's storytelling architecture, emotional texture, and freewheeling humor"--
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

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"Designed to supplement, not supplant, the original, this adaptation illuminates Shakespeare's meaning for modern audiences while maintaining the play's storytelling architecture, emotional texture, and freewheeling humor"--

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789387488946
Publisher: Mjp Publishers
Publication date: 02/13/2023
Pages: 114
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.24(d)
Age Range: 8 - 11 Years

About the Author

About The Author
Jeffrey Whitty is a screenwriter, playwright, poet, and performer. In 2018 he received Best Adapted Screenplay honors for Can You Ever Forgive Me? from the Writers Guild of America, the Independent Spirit Awards, the Satellite Press Association, and others, as well as Academy Award and BAFTA nominations.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

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Table of Contents

A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare - Edited by Wolfgang Clemen William Hazlitt: From The Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
Henry Alonzo Myers: 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream': Tragedy and Comedy
John Russell Brown From Shakespeare and His Comedies
Frank Kermode: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Linda Bamber: The Status of the Feminine in Shakespearean Comedy
Sylvan Barnet: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' on the Stage and Screen

NEWLY ADDED ESSAY:
Camille Wells Slights: From Shakespeare's Comic Commonwealths

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